Example sentences of "[n mass] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin Kingsland Shirley Holmes series , £2.99 each The Case of the Missing Case , The Case of the Hollywood Soap Star , The Case of the Sheik 's Missing Shake-Maker , The Case of the Illegal Sherbet Shake-Down , P.o.s. : 26-copy counterpack ; giveaway notepads ; Shirley Holmes Activity Packs for bookshops and libraries Media coverage : competition in main provincial newspapers |
| 2 | 30% prefer the Independent ; 20% , the Daily Telegraph ; and 10% each The Times and the Daily Mail . |
| 3 | Payments could be limited to a maximum number of patients per general practitioner which would stop the protests that a single handed general practitioner with a list of 3000 in an area of high deprivation receives an extra £28 800 a year without any obligation to provide extra services . |
| 4 | Mrs Phillipa Grove took up the lease in 1782 and on her death her daughter , Miss Phillipa Grove renewed the tenancy and payed £44. 10s a year rent to Lord Pembroke . |
| 5 | The first was that during the dispute of 14 June to 5 August 1911 , Wilson undercut an agreement which he had made with the Clyde shipowners for a minimum of £pound5 10s a month by " temporarily patching up his bitter quarrel with the Shipping Federation and simultaneously accepting an all-round payment of £pound5 a month " which the shipowners were eventually forced to increase to the Glasgow level as standard . |
| 6 | The completed bridge made up of Royal Engineer M2 floating rigs. such a bridge would normally be dismantled before dawn in wartime since it would be a prime target for enemy aircraft during daylight hours . |
| 7 | We do need , this is a fair point , that we do need more data all the way through here , at the moment none of us is suggesting any compulsory tests for anybody . |
| 8 | I drew that aircraft all the time . |
| 9 | The postponement of the most painful tax increases — intended to raise £6.5 billion extra next year and a further £10.5 billion the year after — is in order not to knock off course the fragile economic recovery . |
| 10 | Over the next ten years it had averaged £23 billion a year . |
| 11 | Road transport pollution Congestion on the roads costs an estimated £15 billion a year , yet the Government continues to do nothing to curb the rate of growth of car use — estimated at 142% between 1990 and 2005 . |
| 12 | Overhauling an industry that consumes $100 billion a year and accounts for about a seventh of the national economy merits delay . |
| 13 | The fall in Third World export prices has thus given a boost to the Gross National Product ( GNP ) of the rich countries , to the tune of something like $100 billion a year . |
| 14 | Jeffrey Sachs , a Harvard economist who has advised the Polish government , has suggested that an aid package of $30 billion a year for five years might be in order . |
| 15 | Outside suppliers are an integral part of the carmaking business : GM spends some $30 billion a year with its North American suppliers alone ; Ford $17 billion . |
| 16 | By contrast , the hon. Gentleman might bear it in mind that Labour 's plans for an extra £37 billion a year and policies of higher taxation , higher inflation and higher interest rates would drive this country into perpetual slump . |
| 17 | Shop theft — retailers believe they lose around £3.2 billion a year and the losses are growing . |
| 18 | He is also attempting to push through a plan to increase the EC Budget by 30 per cent — costing British taxpayers an additional £1 billion a year — with the aim of raising the Budget from its present level of about £4 billion to £30 billion by 1997 . |
| 19 | Szeliga has a promotional budget of £1 million this year to carve a slice of the UK market for loudspeakers , which he estimates to be worth £50 million , and an R&D budget of up to £20 million over five years to develop amplifiers , compactdisc players and cassette decks , a sector estimated to be worth £1 billion a year in Britain . |
| 20 | Profits from the smaller games will go towards charities , arts , sport and leisure like the £1 billion a year expected from the lottery . |
| 21 | Rival gambling enterprises fear the lottery , aimed at raising funds for the arts , sport and charities , will cost them more than £1 billion a year . |
| 22 | If only one in 10 of those people cared for at home had instead to be looked after in residential institutions the additional public cost would exceed £1 billion a year . |
| 23 | In Britain , aside from the Ministry of Defence , which is the largest purchaser in central government , the most significant purchasers are as follows : the Department of Transport , spending about £1 billion a year ; Her Majesty 's Stationary Office , which spends about £250 million a year ; the Property Services Agency , servicing public buildings and other property , spends about £1.8 billion a year ; the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency , responsible for all central government information technology advice , organizes everything from multi-million pound computer systems to peripheral services , such as micro-computers , service and maintainance ; the National Health Service spends nearly £3.5 billion annually on a wide range of supplies and services through the NHS authorities ; and , finally , local authorities buy a very wide range of goods and services . |
| 24 | Yet , defending the cuts , the Minister claims that most of his department 's spending of £1 billion a year on museums , heritage , sports and the arts , directly aids tourism . |
| 25 | From April 1991 , deficits on all local authority hostels met by Government subsidies will be worth an extra £1 billion a year . |
| 26 | That level of investment , currently running at £1 billion a year , will be sustained by the Government over the public expenditure planning period which runs for the next three years and , I am quite confident , will run over the next 10 years . |
| 27 | Oh yes , they are still going down the pan , to the tune of £1 billion a year in the UK , according to the Management Consultancies Association . |
| 28 | The fast food sector offered a £1 billion a year market in sandwiches alone . |
| 29 | The reduction in the tax credit on dividends from 25 per cent to 20 will reduce the amounts they and other non-taxpayers can reclaim from the Inland Revenue , saving the Government £1 billion a year . |
| 30 | In a move which pension fund managers describe as ‘ pension fund taxation by the back door ’ , the decision to cut from 25 to 20 per cent the tax credit that can be reclaimed on dividends , has reduced the yield on the FT All-Share Index from 4.1 per cent to 3.9 per cent and could cost the funds £1 billion a year . |